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No. 560,527 Pat'ented May 19, 1896.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,527, dated May 19, 1896.

application filed April 14, 1896 To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. NORTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a certain improvement in shirts, and has for its object to provide a shirt with a three-ply neckband having a buttonhole through three thicknesses of the fabric and a fly or flap integral with the shirt-band and having two thicknesses of fabric and covering said buttonhole.

My invention consists of the special construction herein shown of the three-ply neckband and a folded piece of fabric inserted between the plies at one end of said band, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows the two strips of fabric of which a threeply neckband is composed. Fig. 2 shows the said two strips stitched together, leaving one end of the single-thick strip unattached or free from the double-thick strip. This forms the three-ply neckband. Fig. 3 is a view of the folded insert. Fig. 4 is a bottom edge View showing the three-ply neckband stitched as in Fig. 2 and the folded insert shown in Fig. 3 placed in position at the unattached end between the single-thick and double-thick strips. Fig. 5 shows the finished neckband with my improvement. Fig. 6 shows part of a shirt, being a view of the back, and illustrates my improvement in neckbands as applied to the shirt.

It is desirable to make the neckband (designated A) of three plies or three thicknesses of fabric, and it is desirable that the buttonholes for the collar-button or studs should be made through three thicknesses. This is the practice in making good shirts. Now the desideratum is to provide so that the buttonhole which comes in the neckband shall be in three plies and be covered with a two-ply flap to protect the neck of the wearer from pressure of the stud which is inserted in said hole. As the various constructions which have heretofore been proposed to accomplish this pur- Serial No. 587,495. (No model.)

pose have been objectionable for one reason or other, I have been led to contrive the one illustrated in the drawings.

The neckband is made of two strips, one of which, I), is wide enough to fold longitudinally and make a double-thick strip. The other strip, 0, is half the width of the first one. These are cut narrower at the center to have a spring and are stitched together, as seen in Fig. 2, leaving the single-thick strip 0 at one end unattached. The unattached ends are designated b 0. An insert consists of a short strip of fabric (Z, folded across the center cl, so as to bring its two ends together. This folded short strip is inserted between the unattached ends of the neckband, as shown in Fig. 4, and one end of said inserted strip is then stitched to the double-thick strip at b, and the other end of said inserted strip is stitched to the single-thick strip at c, all as shown in Fig. 5. It will thus be seen my improved neckband has three plies throughout its length and at one end has two separated tan gs with a folded insert between the tangs and attached to both tangs. The outer tang, having the buttonhole 6, has three thicknesses, while the inner tang, which is the flap 0 has two thicknesses.

Fig. 6 shows the neckband just described stitched to the shirt in the usual manner. It will be seen the two-ply flap 0 will be next to the neck of the person who may wear the shirt, and that a stud inserted in the buttonhole 6 on the outer three-ply flap will have its base resting against the said two-ply flap c .v

The construction of this neckband leaves the band smooth both on the inner and outer surfaces, so that in laundering the smoothingiron will meet with no hindrance. The two flaps being separate at the corner renders it that the folded piece inserted at one end between the plies and forming two tangs may be used with any number of plies more or less than three.

Having thus described my invention, I claim-- A shirt having a neckband which is provided at one end with a folded piece of fabric inserted between the plies and separating" them into two tangssaid folded inserted piece forming a continuous facing for both 10 tangs and stitched to both, and a buttonhole in one tang only, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES E. NORTH.

itnesses CHARLES B. MANN, Jr., C. CALVERT HINES. 

